The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. / By Charles Dickens. ; with illustrations by Phiz..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Contributor:

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, Illustrator.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Chapman and Hall., Publisher.

Frank R. Brown (Firm), Bookseller.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Martin Chuzzlewit

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiv, [2], 624 p., [38] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London: : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand., MDCCCXLIV. [1844]

Notes:

Added engraved t.p.

Originally issued in 20 numbers in 19 parts (numbers 19 and 20 issued together) between January 1843 and July 1844; first published in one volume on 16 July 1844.

First edition, second issue, with "L100" on signboard in engraved t.p. Cf. Eckel.

Errata (14 lines on p. [xv]).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Three generations of book collectors," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2012.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006) from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Athenaeum copy with corespondence and clipped page of catalog from bookseller Frank R. Brown (Cambridge, England) laid in at end; half bound in green morocco.

Cited in:

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A72

Eckel, J.C. First editions of Charles Dickens, p. 66-68

Johannsen, A. Phiz: illustrations from the novels of Dickens, p. 173-240